Art Quotes
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.Tennessee Williams
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.Marge Piercy
Insanity in individuals is something rare - But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.Friedrich Nietzsche
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.Jim Ryun
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Miguel de Cervantes
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.John Burroughs, The Snow - Walkers
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.Henry David Thoreau
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.A. R. Orage
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.Henry Ward Beeche
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.Henry James
Give your hearts, but not into each other? s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meye
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.John Barth
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Max Eastman
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.Harold Loukes
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.Henri F. Amiel
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.Vivian Baxte
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.Karl Marx
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.Jewish Prove
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.H. L. Mencken
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.Sir Winston Churchill
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.Navajo Chant
If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart.Arabic Prove
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.Scott Adams
